Access Denied for User 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - No Privileges?

I am continuously receiving this error. I am using mySQL Workbench and from what I am finding is that root's schema privileges are null. There are no privileges at all. I am having troubles across platforms that my server is used for and this has been all of a sudden issue. **root@127.0.0.1** apparently has a lot of access but I am logged in as that, but it just assigns to localhost anyways - localhost has no privileges. I have done a few things like `FLUSH HOSTS`, `FLUSH PRIVILEGES`, etc but have found no success from that or the internet. How can I get root its access back? I find this frustrating because when I look around people expect you to "have access" but I don't have access so I can't go into command line or anything and `GRANT` myself anything. When running `SHOW GRANTS FOR root` this is what I get in return: > Error Code: 1141. There is no such grant defined for user 'root' on > host '%'